Seriously I respect players at all levels, but coaching is a different beast. You gotta be good with people, be able to teach, have patience, and be able to control your ego. Not to mention something called coaching experience.

I have more respect for former players who work their way up. My staff went against a former Panthers player who was the HC of his d3 college team. If he has NFL ambitions that is the way to do it.

Yeah thats true. Even a HOFer like Singletary started out as a LB coach. Romanowski should start out on a similar path, im sure he could be a LB coach in the NFL.

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Yeah thats true. Even a HOFer like Singletary started out as a LB coach. Romanowski should start out on a similar path, im sure he could be a LB coach in the NFL.

Being an NFL player obviously helps and open doors, but from there on, you still have to have the right makeup to coach. Let me put it to you this way, not every coach may have opportunity to play football, while not every NFL player can be a coach. Some people are gifted with the brain, while others with the body. One example is texas tech coach who never played,and takes pride in that too. Mike S. is lucky. He has the resume while playing AND the personality makeup to perhaps be successful. But even he will be tested too in his career. He very well could be a bust and not get an NFL coaching job, and may go to college.

Bill Romanowski is a nut case. I wouldn't want to work on his staff and have him go postal on a coach for calling a bad play. lol. You will have the Buddy ryan-Kevin Gilbride situation where a coach gets punched on the sideline.